To be a Black woman: portraits in fact and fiction / edited by Mel Watkins and Jay David.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Mel, 1940- compiler.

Contributor:

David, Jay, 1929-2014, compiler.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women.

African American women--Fiction.

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 285 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1970.

Contents:

I. The Burden of Oppression

II. Black on White: The Black Woman in the White World

III. Black on Black: The Black Woman in the Black World

IV. A Heritage Rediscovered: The New Black Woman.

Notes:

"This extraordinary collection is the first in-depth portrait of the black woman in America, from slavery to the present, to appear. The thirty-nine selections in this volume are varied in form as well as content. They range from sociological studies and essays to the intense personal depictions offered by autobiographies, poetry and fiction."--Dustjacket.

"Jacket illustration by Carol Favilla."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

97889